Click on map to open large map in new window (Map updated: 11 August 2009)

Click here to view an interactive map of the Northern Ireland dataset as currently collated by CEDaR.The map is generated through the NBN Gateway using their Interactive Mapping Tool.

Extinct in Ireland since 1884 (County Down), this lichen is best known by its resemblance to small soily ‘cow pats’. It grows on acid, peaty gravel soils on mountain tracks and ridges and is easily missed. Discs are common, convex and red-brown to brown. They grow up to 1mm diam. It once grew in the Wicklow Mountains and should be searched for there again.

Key characteristics

Thallus brown to brown-grey scattered with clusters of red-brown discs — resembling a small ‘cow pat’